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1 Samuel 13:11-13
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11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me,[a] and that you didn’t come at the appointed time, and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash, 12 I thought,[b] ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated[c] to offer the burnt offering.”

13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed[d] the commandment that the Lord your God gave[e] you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:11 tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”
  2. 1 Samuel 13:12 tn Heb “said.”
  3. 1 Samuel 13:12 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
  4. 1 Samuel 13:13 tn Or “kept.”
  5. 1 Samuel 13:13 tn Heb “commanded.”
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